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The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s State Energy Office has selected seven projects to receive more than $20 million to improve North Carolina’s electric grid. The selected projects will update grid infrastructure to increase load capacity and resilience against severe weather,
A coalition of New England states jointly submitted two applications to secure federal funding to support investments in large-scale transmission and energy storage infrastructure to enhance grid reliability and resilience across the region.
Except in extreme scenarios, rising wildfire risks are manageable for California's publicly owned electric utilities, Moody's Investors Service said in a recent report.
The American Public Power Association is pleased to present the second in-depth, three-part Public Power Current newsletter series to celebrate public power’s past, present, and future. Today we share how three public power utilities have adapted to changing times and local needs.
A growing number of states are taking action to clear a path for the possible development of nuclear power.
ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc., presented 17 communities with Public Power Awards of Excellence at ElectriCities’ 2024 Annual Conference held in Asheville, North Carolina.
Legislation has been introduced in the Florida Legislature that would give state utility regulators the ability to regulate public power utilities with customers outside city boundaries.
The Florida Municipal Electric Association announced its 2024 “Restoring Communities Awards,” which recognize Florida public power utilities for their exemplary power restoration efforts in their own communities or their mutual aid efforts outside of their home communities following hurricanes, other severe weather events and non-weather-related emergencies.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently issued an order affirming the small utility opt-in feature supported by the American Public Power Association of a final rule that allows for distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators to compete in regional organized wholesale electric markets.